The War on Carbon Terror - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Madame Secretary is no longer restricted to the thankless task of preventing terror attacks here at home, but at preventing "man-caused disasters" of all kinds. (And apparently, she is ready to confront her expanded portfolio of disasters cheerfully, having moved past the politics of fear.) There can be little doubt that by this "nuance," the rhetorical space is being cleared to involve DHS in the Obama administration's climate-change efforts.

As Chris Horner and I were saying over e-mail last week: get ready for the global war on carbon terror.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Why the “never seen before” Fargo flooding is just what you’d expect from global warming, as Obama warns

Besides Obama, the British and the Chinese understand global warming has driven their record flooding. The United States media? Not so much.

David Frum: The Shock Doctrine - Disaster environmentalism in action - Full Comment

In the same vein, if all we really wanted to do was reduce the emission of carbon, our preferred policy instrument would be a carbon tax. That tax could be easily set at a level just sufficient to offset the relatively modest price differential between coal and nuclear power: just a few cents per kilowatt-hour.

By contrast, a tax that raises the price of electricity high enough to make solar and wind competitive would trigger a revolution. Solar and wind can only compete in a market so gnarled and manipulated by abstruse regulations that nobody can decode the cost of anything. Which is why so many environmentalists prefer the Byzantine complexities of cap-and-trade to a carbon tax. The carbon tax is too simple and too transparent. It shows too much!

Outsiders to this hermetic debate are entitled to better explanations than we have been getting. The cultural and ideological commitments of environmentalists need to be declared. If carbon dioxide truly is creating a planetary emergency, then previous ideological bugaboos must give way. If conservatives can learn to live with a tax on coal, then environmentalists can learn to live with nuclear power. Devotion to renewables is not energy policy. It is fantasy.

YouTube flashback - Ted Turner - Global Warming Will Create Cannibals